excerpts from the Victorian Perinatal Data Collection Unit News Bulletin
Welcome to
The New Year (eleventh) edition of the Victorian
Perinatal News Bulletin. This bulletin has been designed to keep you up to
date with information from the Clinical Councils Unit and CCOPMM, including the
Victorian Perinatal Data Collection (VPDC) and the Victorian Birth Defects
Register (VBDR).
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Electronic
copies of our bulletins can also be found on our website: http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ccopmm/publications/index.htm.
Please
visit our website for more information about the collection, for copies of the VPDC User Manual for Midwives, the VPDC Manual and updates on recent
publications.
The VPDC User Manual for Midwives provides
clear definitions for commonly used terms especially those that often cause
confusion. There are examples and scenarios provided to make things crystal
clear. New personnel,
who require SDE access, are required to provide their information via the
online form at: http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ccopmm/mailing_list.htm. If you have any suggestions that
would improve the manual please contact Diana Stubbs.
Development of the Online e-form
Funding has been allocated
for the development of an online e-form to assist sites with small birth
numbers and homebirth practitioners in electronically submitting birth
information to the VPDC. A forum to educate users will be held once the form is
ready for testing. This e-form will replicate the current paper birth report.
Our long term aim is to have
all data submitted electronically and this will be realised with the e-form resource.
New Data Element
A new
data element will be introduced in 2013. This data element is “the total number of antenatal visits”. The
request is from the National Perinatal Data Development Committee (NPDDC) and
has been approved by the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality
and Morbidity (CCOPMM) for inclusion in the data collection from 2013. All
settings and software vendors will be notified once collection of this item is
about to commence.
Publications
Hospital
Profiles for 2009
The 2009 Hospital profiles have been
released to Health settings and are a smaller, more condensed version than previous years. Please ask your senior
Maternity manager for a copy of
the PDF if you have not had a chance
to see your hospital maternity statistics
Reports
To enhance the reporting of
information collected and considered by CCOPMM, the 2009 Annual Report,
focusing on mortality and morbidity data, was expanded to include summaries of
·
information pertaining to births (previously Births in Victoria)
·
research supported by the Council.
The redeveloped 2009 CCOPMM Annual report has been
released and is available on the Web
The 2008 CCOPMM Annual Report is available on the website.
Birth Defects in Vic 2005 -2006 is available on the
website.
For more information, please contact
Diana Stubbs
Liaison Midwife
ph. 03 9096 0380
